multipathd?

[Patrick 'P. J.' McDermott]

[Resending because I screwed up sending to the list.  Sorry Michael for
the duplicate.]

On 2017-07-14 at 14:46, Michael Di Domenico wrote:
> does anyone know if it's possible to run multipathd under busybox?  i
> suspect this is a fools errand given that multipath is a redhat
> project, which then ties it with udev which then ties it with systemd.  

eudev [1], forked from systemd's udev, works nicely to manage device
files without systemd.  But ...

> i tried just grabbing the multipath binaries from rhel7 and plugging
> them into my initrd image, but that doesn't seem to work quite right.
> i suspect my issue is that multipath wants a bunch of info from udev
> which i don't have since it's busybox.  

... I think what you need instead is dmsetup, maintained within LVM2, to
create the /dev/mapper nodes for multipathd.

[1]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Eudev

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